Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson has revealed that she used to be so insecure in how she looked that she cancelled concerts.

The singer admitted that she couldn’t appear on stage with her bandmates because she ‘couldn’t bear anyone looking at her’.

Appearing on ITV’s Loose Women, Jesy, 28, spoke candidly about her struggles in the past and how she has finally accepted herself despite being put through hell by online trolls.

Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson has revealed that she used to be so insecure in how she looked that she cancelled concerts. Pic: Scott Garfitt/REX

The pop star first opened up about her traumatic experience with online abuse and trolls in her groundbreaking BBC documentary Odd One Out last year.

In the award-winning documentary she speaks about being thrust into the spotlight after The X-Factor and how she tried to take her own life after online abuse got to her too much.

Speaking to the Loose Women panel, she said: ‘Honestly I feel as though I was carrying this huge weight on my shoulders… and then I thought as soon as I did [the documentary] a huge weight came off my shoulders.

The 28-year-old singer admitted that she couldn’t appear on stage with her bandmates because she ‘couldn’t bear anyone looking at her’. Pic: Jamie Simonds/BBC

‘A lot of people are ashamed to say that they’re struggling.’

When Jesy and the rest of Little Mix rose to stardom in 2011, Twitter was only beginning to get popular. The phenomenon of anyone being able to say what they wanted was really ‘new’ to the girls.

‘I wasn’t used to people having an opinion. It consumed me and I just believed everything that was said about me,’ she said.

Jesy told the panelists that before the release of her documentary she was ‘petrified’ for it to come out but that it has made people ‘a lot more aware of people’s mental health.’

Before the release of her documentary, Jesy told the panelists she was ‘petrified’ for it to come out but that it has made people ‘a lot more aware of people’s mental health.’

When asked how she appeared so confident on stage, the singer said that it was all a ‘facade’.

‘When you go on stage it’s like a character you play,’ she said.

‘There were lots of times where I cancelled shows because I couldn’t bear people looking at me.’

Speaking to The Sun recently, Jesy admitted that she found the idea of loving herself ‘so f***ing hard’. Pic: PrettyLittleThing

Speaking to The Sun recently, Jesy admitted that she found the idea of loving herself ‘so f***ing hard’.

She said: ‘I will never, ever sit here and say,”Oh my God, I’m so confident now, I love myself” because I don’t.

‘It’s just something that I’m working on and I’m accepting myself for who I am.

‘I know I’ll never, ever be the same and feel the same about myself.’

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